1764 – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
1799 – William Paca, American judge and signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 58
1899 – Penn Symons, British Major General during Second Boer War, dies in battle during the Battle Of Talana Hill at 56
1928 – François Victor Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies at 79
1948 – Eugeniusz Morawski-Dabrowa, Polish composer, dies at 71
1954 – Henri Zagwijn, Dutch composer and musicologist, dies at 76
1996 – Ronald Alfred Gardyne “Rags” Butler, British sailor, dies at 68
2005 – John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2005 – William Hootkins, American actor, dies at 57
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry (Nobel 1985), dies at 94